Entrepreneurship Faculty
Dr. Manjula Salimath (Ph.D. in Business, Washington State University; Ph.D., M.Phil., & M.S. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Bangalore University) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management, Transformative Instruction Initiative Fellow (CLEAR, UNT), and Sam Walton Fellow in Free Enterprise (SIFE/ENACTUS). Her research interests include cross national and institutional predictors of entrepreneurship, new venture activity, start-up dynamics, social entrepreneurship, ethics, governance, sustainability, and entrepreneurial performance and success. She has published in journals such as Decision Sciences, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Management Decision, International Journal of Organizational Analysis, International Journal of Production Economics, as well as encyclopedias, reference series, monographs, and books. Dr. Salimath is a member of the editorial board of journals such as Advances in Management and International Journal of Decision Sciences, and also serves as the Track Chair for Entrepreneurship and Small Business in conferences such as the Western Academy of Management, Southwest Academy of Management and International Council for Small Business. Her research and teaching has received recognition and accolades.
Dr. Salimath teaches Advanced Entrepreneurship (capstone course), Technology and Innovation Management , Small Business Development, as well as courses in Business Policy, International Management (graduate and undergraduate), and Organizational Theory (doctoral seminar).
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Dr. Whitney Peake is an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of North Texas. She teaches MGMT 3850 (Entrepreneurship) and MGMT 4660 (International Management) for the Department of Management. Whitney's current research interests include legitimacy formation in the entrepreneurial start-up process, the impact of past managerial experience on firm performance, and other entrepreneurship, family business, and small business related issues. As an agricultural economist by training, Whitney is also exploring entrepreneurship within the field of agribusiness and legitimacy losses experienced by innocent agribusiness firms when contamination scandals strike single firms in the food processing industry.
